Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:55:34 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Gaydenko <a@××××××××.com> wrote:
> >> 2008/11/4 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >   I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy
> >> > of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories
> >> > using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 20000
> >> > files so I need the converted structure to replicate the original.
> >> > Most likely the tool has to be very tolerant of file naming, unicode,
> >> > etc., as there are likely to be any number of strange things in there.
> >> >
> >> >   Possibly something in perl or, for the likes of me, even something
> >> > GUI based.
> >
> > GUI-based: media-sound/soundkonverter
>
> Thanks to all for the answers and ideas so far.
>
> Andrew - can soundkonverter target the output files to a completely
> different directory structure? I.e., can it take input from
> /audio/flac/Artist/album/*.flac and send it to
> /audio/mp3/artist/album/*.mp3 where it needs to create the directories
> in the output tree?
>
> If so this would be great for my needs.
>
> I'll build it later this evening.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

There ia an option (among others) "copy directory structure" 
(I have not used it).